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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: sander@humilis.net
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.xx: sata_mv: another critical fix
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:51:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <442004E4.7010002@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060321121354.GB24977@favonius>

Sander wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote (ao):
>> This patch addresses a number of weird behaviours observed
>> for the sata_mv driver, by fixing an "off by one" bug in processing
>> of the EDMA response queue.
>>
>> Basically, sata_mv was looking in the wrong place for
>> command results, and this produced a lot of unpredictable behaviour.
> 
> 2.6.16 with this patch and your former patch applied, crashes during
> stressing a raid5 connected to a MV88SX6081.
> 
> 2.6.16-rc6 crashes too.
> 
> 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 is rock solid wrt sata_mv.
> 
> I get no output of the crash on netconsole. Would it help if I get the
> output of the crash (if any)? In that case I'll connect a screen and see
> what it produces.

Yes, most helpful, please.
Even a digital camera snapshot of the oops would be handy to see.

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-21 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-21  0:57 [git patch append] sata_mv fix Jeff Garzik
2006-03-21  5:00 ` [PATCH] 2.6.xx: sata_mv: another critical fix Mark Lord
2006-03-21 12:13   ` Sander
2006-03-21 13:51     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2006-03-21 15:37       ` Sander
2006-03-21 18:33         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-21 19:15           ` Sander
2006-03-21 19:22             ` Mark Lord
2006-03-21 19:35             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-21 20:44               ` Sander
2006-03-21 20:59                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-21 21:09                   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-21 21:19                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-21 21:37                       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-22  5:48                         ` Sander
2006-03-22  9:00                       ` Sander
2006-03-22 14:50                         ` Mark Lord
2006-03-22 17:09                           ` Sander
2006-03-22 17:53                             ` Eric D. Mudama
2006-03-22 18:01                               ` Sander
2006-03-22 17:55                             ` Mark Lord
2006-03-28  4:34                             ` Mark Lord
2006-05-03 12:16                               ` Sander
2006-05-03 12:42                                 ` Mark Lord
2006-05-03 13:32                                   ` Sander
2006-05-03 16:46                                     ` Mark Lord
2006-05-03 18:39                                       ` Sander
2006-03-22  2:12   ` Jeff Garzik

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